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What’s your type? — #GeneOTW with ABO
I know what you're thinking. This blog is degenerating. Last week, we talked about semen, and this week, we're talking about finding the one. Right? "What's your type?" sounds like the perfect BuzzFeed quiz for your Monday lunch break! But, fortunately for...
You are the Solution
With Mark2Cure, YOU are the solution Join the Mark2Cure interest list and help push biomedical research forward when we launch.
Big Data Center of Excellence
Today, the NIH announced several new awards under the Big Data To Knowledge (BD2K) initiative. I'm very excited to announce that our group will be participating in one of the BD2K Centers of Excellence. Our awarded proposal is titled "A Community Effort to Translate...
Spotlight: Mutations @ A Glance
This week, we profile Mutations@A Glance an integrative web tool originally developed by Dr. Osamu Ohara's lab, and currently maintained by Dr. Atsushi Hijikata at the Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology. Dr. Hijikata kindly answered our questions. In one...
Network of Biothings Hackathon at UC San Diego
Can you code?Are you interested in the intersection of computer science and biology (bioinformatics) ?Do you want to meet interesting people?Are you excited about building new pieces of software that could change the face science and medicine? Do …
Let’s Talk About Semen — #GeneOTW with Semenogelin I
Slightly unsavory (and certainly salacious), the subject of semen is seldom suitable for social settings. But why are we so shy about semen? Scientifically speaking—it’s a pretty spectacular substance. Besides containing sperm, semen is also comprised of various...
What is Mark2Cure?
Mark2Cure is a citizen science tool that empowers anyone who can read to make biomedical research literature more useful for researchers. Mark2Cure citizen scientists improve their ability to read and understand biomedical research abstracts while enabling researchers to more efficiently …
Neat Science Thursday – Scientific communication is hard
For my dissertation research, I studied the mechanisms of viral persistence in the central nervous system using an in vitro model consisting of picornavirus infections of differentiated and undifferentiated murine neural progenitor and stem cells. To some of my non-science … Continue reading →
BioGPS Featured Article- Circadian Regulation of Myocardial Sarcomeric Titin-cap (Tcap, Telethonin)
BioGPS has become the valuable resource that it is because of the contributions from our wonderful user community. Thank you for contributing plugins, suggestions, and ideas--all of which have improved BioGPS for everyone. In order to celebrate the contributions of...
The Double Life of FAS – #GeneOTW
1989 was an important year. In May of 1989, Yonehara et al. published a report that treatment with an anti-FAS antibody leads to the death of cells expressing our ominously-named gene-of-the-week, “Fas cell surface death receptor” (FAS). ((Yonehara, S., Ishii, A.,...